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Meet your next favourite books... STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast sharing the books we love and helping people fall in love-and stay in love-with reading. In every episode, Ella and Jake will present a curated list of six brilliant books on a theme. We're creating mini-libraries on a theme, for whenever the inspiration takes you. Get in touch with your dilemmas for Shelf Help - no question is too big. We are @stackpodcast on Instagram and TikTok

  1. 7 apr

    Books on Friendship: Confetti Cannons, Mayflies, Gabrielle Zevin AND we’ll be back in July!

    It’s the season one finale and it starts with a literal bang (sorry about the noise)! In this episode we look back on our highlights from the last twelve episodes and share our favourite books about friendship because we’re incredibly sentimental.  Plus Ella pitches a soon-to-be-published book as Ghostbusters meets It’s A Sin and it’s the crossover you didn’t know you needed! Don’t forget to subscribe to the pod so you don’t miss our triumphant return in July… The books featured in this week’s STACK: Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin The Private Side of Friendship by Alexander McCall Smith Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time. Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful.  We are @stackpodcast on socials. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section - you can literally ask us anything! STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production. It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne. Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    35 min

  2. 24 mar

    Books for Turbulent Times: Emily Henry, Motherland and When To Hibernate

    Do you ever feel the need to hide from the world in a book? We do! All the time! This episode showcases our favourite books to read in turbulent times - with a generous side of caveats. Our shelf-help segment this week includes our top recommendations for a documentary-style novel - perfect for fans of Daisy Jones and the Six!  The books featured in this week’s STACK: The Poetry Pharmacy by William Sieghart We All Live Here by JoJo Moyes Wintering by Katherine May Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer The Mystery of Mercy Close by Marian Keyes The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer We also recommend The People We Meet on Vacation & The History of Sound. The poem Ella quotes is Today My Horoscope Read, by Warsan Shire. STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time. Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful.  We are @stackpodcast on socials. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section - you can literally ask us anything! STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production. It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne. Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    36 min

  3. 10 mar

    Noughties Nostalgia: Lily Allen, Malorie Blackman and Kissin’ Kate Barlow

    In honour of World Book Day we’ve collected some of the most iconic reads of our childhood and hopefully yours too. Jake tries to recommend Lord of the Flies to an eleven-year-old and Ella learns that Lemony Snicket is actually a man called Daniel.  The books featured in this week’s STACK: Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz Northern Lights by Phillip Pulman The Poltergoose by Michael Laurence Holes by Louis Sachar The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman Jake recommends Daniel Handler’s memoir: And Then? And Then? What Else?  Both are obsessed with Lily Allen’s album: West End Girl.  STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time. Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful.  We are @stackpodcast on socials. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section - you can literally ask us anything! STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production. It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne. Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    33 min

  4. 24 feb

    Classics with a Twist: Sally Rooney, Ella Risbridger and the 900 Versions of Pride & Prejudice

    We tried to put together an episode on Classics but Jake only likes the popular ones and Ella doesn't like any of them... Instead, presenting our own take on the late, the great, and the classics we hate.  Plus, Ella has never read a Sally Rooney book. The books featured in this week's STACK: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver In Love With Love by Ella Risbridger Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld Intermezzo by Sally Rooney James by Percival Everett Catherine by Essie Fox Ella recommended this episode of the Shameless podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/50OXBpqrmONxw17gI0VlsR?si=svPd51krQZqc3E1T0jBnvQ  Jake gave a shout out to the Boys Book Club: https://www.instagram.com/boys.book.club?igsh=MXRscXM2a2h0NjN1eQ==  STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time. Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful.  We are @stackpodcast on socials. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section - you can literally ask us anything! STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production. It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne. Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    34 min

  5. 16 feb

    BONUS: Wuthering Heights - What We Thought

    Join us for an extra special bonus episode of STACK, filmed the day after Jake and Ella watched Wuthering Heights in the greatest cinema in the world. It’s one of Jake’s favourite books, and it’s the talk of the internet, but was it any good?  STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time. Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful.  We are @stackpodcast on socials. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section - you can literally ask us anything! STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production. It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne. Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    22 min

  6. 10 feb

    Love Stacktually: The Marian Keyes Of It All, Relationship Podcasts and Romantic Comedy

    Love stories are some of our favourite stories, so this Valentines week, join us for six books to put on your stack - books of toxic first loves, the line between friendship and romance, and stories about loving yourself. It’s all in this episode, alongside Jake’s love of reformer pilates, and Ella’s love of Marian Keyes. Plus: what to do if you buy someone a book, and they never tell you they’ve read it. Should you chase?  The books featured in this week’s STACK: Chosen Family - Madeleine Grey Talking at Night - Clare Daverley Isaac - Curtis Garner Romantic Comedy - Curtis Sittenfeld Wild Things - Laura Kay Rachel’s Holiday - Marian Keyes Also featured: Orange - Curtis Garner Tell Me Everything - Laura Kay The Split - Laura Kay Marian Keyes’ writing videos in the vlog section here: https://www.mariankeyes.com/videos/  STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time. Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful.  We are @stackpodcast on socials. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section - you can literally ask us anything! STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production. It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne. Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    34 min

  7. 27 gen

    Books We Thought We’d Hate: ACOTAR, Historical Fiction and Prize-Winners

    What puts you off a book and what pulls you towards one? This episode is all about the books we thought we wouldn’t like - whether the cover, the topic, or something else - but we’re happy to tell you these are six books we actually thought were great. We deep dive into our own reading tastes and prejudices and create the Venn Diagram of Jake and Ella’s reading taste.  Warning: there are some hot, and bad, takes in this episode! The books featured in this week’s STACK: 8.20 Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel 12.40 Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellmann 15.22 Yellowface - R. F. Kuang 19.32 The Bee Sting - Paul Murray 22.00 In Memoriam - Alice Winn 27.20 A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas Also featured: One Day - David Nicholls Heated Rivalry - Rachel Reid It Lasts Forever and then It’s Over - Anne de Marcken Second Best - David Foenkinos Blood Over Bright Haven - M.L. Wang A Little Life - Hanya Yanigahara STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time. Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful.  We are @stackpodcast on socials. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section - you can literally ask us anything! STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production. It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne. Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    37 min
  8. Life-Changing Books and Hamnet on Film: £1 Book Hauls, Awkward Money Chats and Naming Your Brain

    13 gen

    Life-Changing Books and Hamnet on Film: £1 Book Hauls, Awkward Money Chats and Naming Your Brain

    ***This episode contains discussion around death and bereavement - we advise listening with caution or skipping this episode if those topics wouldn’t be right for you right now*** It’s a New Year and our first STACK of the year is here. We’re a firm believer in the power of books to change lives, but which ones specifically? We’re also virtual this episode, hot off the back of seeing Hamnet and desperate to talk about it, and we’re sharing life hacks including how to afford a New Year book haul. Plus: bao buns, surprising stats and discussing whether Stephen Sondheim is a household name. Plus - we run through the best upcoming 2026 books to add to your TBR.  The books featured in this week’s STACK: 11.57 Solve For Happy - Mo Gawdat 14.50 Open Up - Alex Holder 18.28 East - Meera Sodha 21.06 A Heart That Works - Rob Delaney 23.56 Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman 28.49 How Sondheim Can Change Your Life - Richard Schoch Also featured: Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell Land - Maggie O’Farrell Hooked - Asako Yusuki What Am I, A Deer? - Polly Barton Vigil - George Saunders The Things We Never Say - Elizabeth Strout People In Love - Claire Daverley STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time. Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful.  We are @stackpodcast on socials. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section - you can literally ask us anything  STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production. It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne. Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    34 min
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Meet your next favourite books... STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast sharing the books we love and helping people fall in love-and stay in love-with reading. In every episode, Ella and Jake will present a curated list of six brilliant books on a theme. We're creating mini-libraries on a theme, for whenever the inspiration takes you. Get in touch with your dilemmas for Shelf Help - no question is too big. We are @stackpodcast on Instagram and TikTok

Informazioni

  • Canale
    W!ZARD Studios
  • Creatore
    STACK Books/W!ZARD Studios
  • Anni di attività
    2025 - 2026
  • Puntate
    14
  • Classificazione
    Contenuti espliciti
  • Copyright
    © 2026 STACK with Jake and Ella
  • Sito web del podcast
    STACK with Jake and Ella
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